Month: July 2010

Retro hipster art blocks

Retro hipster art blocks

I’ve been a huge fan of typemakers House Industries ever since, well since I was a graphic designer, which was a long time ago. I not only love their font families, mainly “atomic age” retro-modern designs, but a lot of the swag and type-inspired products they increasingly design and sell. Case in point are the […]

How-To: Hooded Baby Towel

Instructables user Mickiswing shares her technique for creating a fluffy big hooded baby towel, which she suggests makes a great baby shower gift! I like these so much better than most store bought baby towels. They’re cheaper to make, averaging around $10 per towel, and they’re much bigger, thicker and softer. My almost six year […]

Now that’s a lotta perfboard …

Now that’s a lotta perfboard …

Wandering the halls of Wikipedia, I came across this jaw-droppingly complex example of a perfboarding project (stripboard, to be precise). The unit was built as a prototype Dolby SR noise reduction circuit and was photographed by Mr. Gregory Maxwell at the San Francisco Airport Museum‘s History of Audio exhibition. A few pics from the 2006 […]

MAKE’s new soc net buttons

As you may have noticed, we now have Email, Digg, Tweet, Facebook, and StumbleUpon buttons on our main blog pages (at the bottom of each post). We’ve had most of these buttons on the permalink blog pages for each post, but not on our main pages. If you like what you see on MAKE, please […]